Newtown residents at hearing urge more gun control

Area residents enter Newtown High School for a community meeting to determine the future of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2012. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Michael Duffy)

From the left, Connecticut State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey, Senate President Donald Williams Jr., State Senate minority leader John McKinney, and House minority leader Lawrence Cafero, listen to residents of Newtown testify during a hearing of a legislative task force on gun violence and children's safety at Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Connecticut lawmakers are in Newtown for the hearing, where those invited to give testimony include first responders and families with children enrolled at Sandy Hook Elementary. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Several hundred Newtown residents have turned out for a legislative public hearing, urging Connecticut lawmakers to impose policy changes after last month's elementary school massacre that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead.

Many in the audience at Newtown High School on Wednesday night wore stickers urging more gun control measures.

Newtown officials, parents of fallen Sandy Hook students and residents were the focus of Wednesday's hearing. Three task force subcommittees are reviewing possible law and policy changes affecting guns, school safety and mental health.